Ethics of patenting surgical procedures

Statutory and ethical barriers in the patenting of medical and surgical procedures.

Ethics of Gene Patenting: Moral, Legal, and Practical Perspectives

Patenting life: biotechnology, intellectual property, and environmental ethics.

Risk Assessment of Surgical Procedures in a Referral Hospital

Background: Adverse Events (AEs) due to failure in healthcare procedures are common. These procedures are often evaluated independently. The objectives of this study are to investigate the nature of the failures in healthcare procedures of the surgical patients, assessing the frequency of these failures and preventability, and exploring their consequences, underlying causes, and prevention stra...

Surgical ethics: surgical virtue and more.

The encounter between a patient and her surgeon is unique for several reasons. The surgeon inflicts pain upon a patient for the patient's own good. An operative intervention is irreducibly personal, such that the decisions about and performance of operations are inseparable from the idiosyncrasies of the individual surgeon. Furthermore, there is a chasm of knowledge between the patient and surg...